"Delia Welegtabit discovers two things during her childhood in the South Pacific Islands: a love for mathematics and a book that isn't supposed to exist. But the elusive novel, Lode Stars, proves unexpectedly dangerous for Delia, and for her husband Levi, who has gone missing. Meanwhile, Oskar Lens, a science fiction-obsessed mobster in the midst of an existential crisis, will stop at nothing to possess the book. Lode Stars was written by the infamous Eugene Charles Hartley: legendary pulp science-fiction writer and founder of the Church of the All-Seeing Eyes. Was Hartley a cynical conman on a quest for wealth and immortality, or was he a visionary who truly discovered the secrets of the universe?"--Page 4 of cover.
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